It is criminal to defend the productions of Pfas.
The chemical pole of Spinetta Marengo is like a huge drift iceberg. That Solvay did not face even after the Cassation sentence. Indeed, he acute it, not even managed to check the PFAS. THE Pfas For decades, the "tip of the iceberg" of toxic and carcinogenic emitted to the ground-water-air have been decades: composed mass and Hexavalent chromium, arsenic, antimony, nickel, selenium, ddt, fluorinated, sulphates, hydrocarbons, heavy metals, chlorinated organic solvents, chloroform, fluorideous acid triel, hydrochloric acid, ammonia, alcohol, phosphoric aidridic, iodide, zn, potassium hydroxide, Nox, Sox, powders etc. . It would be reductive to concentrate on the Pfas the Alessandria process-bis, would ignore the ruling of the Cassation.
The claim of ban pfas, All in all he would limit himself to eliminating the tip of the iceberg, but Solvay perceives it as a "Trojan horse" to conquer the entire spinettese chemical stronghold. And precisely on the Pfas Solvay today erected its "Maginot line": and after having
sworn for decades that the PFAS Killer PFOA It was not carcinogenic, now perjury for the PFAS ADV e C6O4 And for the future pfas they even more harmless, therefore essential for another 60 years to make resistant, fireproofs and water -repellent non -stick coatings, firefighting, waterproof fabrics, pesticides, construction materials and cleaning products and personal hygiene etc.
Solvay claims to stay, at least until 2026, The only manufacturer of Pfas in Italy of these devastating substances for human health, identified in the blood, in breast milk, in the placenta, serum, in the seminal liquid and in the hair, etc., after, due to their high molecular stability, they spread widely indestructible in the environment , they pour into large quantities in water basins , from where they can travel great distances, entering the aquatic ecosystem and going up the food chain to human beings.
Solvay's heinous pervicacy resists - is willful misconduct! - To the amount of scientific evidence accumulated, including transcriptional comparative analysis Published in the magazine Toxics and with the title “Cross-Species Transcriptomics Analysis Highlights Conserved Molecular Responses to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances”, made by Scientists from the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology of the University of Bologna e of the University of Padua, Study that leaves no doubt about how much the different pfas molecules (4,730 molecules: the largest family of emerging pollutants) influence hormonal streets and metabolic streets.
The PFAS cause a strong regression of the metabolism and the transport of lipids and other processes related to ovarian development, the production of estrogen, ovulation and physiological functioning of the female reproductive system; All elements that explain the harmful effects of the PFAS on fertility and fetal development . Show that exposure to PFAS produces a soveregulation of the ID1 gene, involved in the development of various types of cancer , including leukemia, breast and pancreas cancer. The epidemiological data suggest that a high exposure also significantly increases the mortality of individuals suffering from malignant neoplasms of lymphatic and hematopoietic tissues , like a spleen, liver and bone marrow. The toxic effect of the PFAS on the immune system explains the weakening of immune reactions, the production of antibodies and responses to vaccinations, observed particularly in children exposed to the PFAS during the prenatal and postnatal period. The exposure also increases the concentration in the serum of inflammatory and oxidative stress markers and thus promotes the development of systemic diseases, such as the Hepatic damage and cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis and thromboembolic events.
Who has polluted must pay.
Will this process in Alessandria take into account the new directive approved by the European Parliament? Will resume, in the accusation, the crime of "Deceit" Formulated by the Prosecutor in 2010 but in the reformed sentence (with very strong discounts of sentence) in the crime of "fault"?
The new environmental protection directive includes the so -called " qualified crimes “, Which lead to the destruction or significant damage to an ecosystem and are therefore comparable to ECOCIDIDE : For example, the widespread pollution of air, water and soil.
For the defendants, the consequences for having committed an environmental crime can be prison penis Up to ten years if their action causes a person's death. In most cases, however, the penalty provided for crimes committed with negligence is five years , eight regarding the "qualified crimes “.
“The new directive opens a new page in the history of Europe, defining protection against those who damage ecosystems and, through them, human health. It means put an end to environmental impunity in Europe , crucial and urgent And "says Antonius Manders speaker of the directive. Of this impunity in Italy we have widely documented in the two books "Perfect crime environment" by Barbara Tartaglione and Lino Balza, preface by Giorgio Nebbia.
Following this directive, Solvay would not worry about the directors, adequately paid for the "professional" risk, to the present: Andrea Diotto and Stefano Bigini, but at most for pecuniary penalties: The sanctions come up al 5% of the global annual turnover of a company responsible for environmental crimes but fixed figure of 40 million euros, a discretion of the Member States. The offenders will also have to compensate the damage caused and restore the damaged environment.
Solvay hides behind the authorizations (AIA) of the province of Alessandria. According to the previous EU directive on environmental crimes, until a company respected the conditions of an authorization, it claimed that its actions were not considered illegal. An example, told by Antonius Manders concerns the judicial case of the Dutch chemical industry Chemours than in 1982 He obtained authorization to spill Pfas in the waters before these substances were identified as harmful to human health. This fig leaf today does not cover The Solvay managers who, maliciously, have always known that the PFAS are toxic and carcinogenic.
On the eve of the second trial against Solvay, Greenpeace warns “We cannot always hope for the judiciary as a guarantor of any dispute. If there are unequivocal data and numbers, the legislator must intervene. Instead, compared to the Pfas case, politics has consciously decided not to intervene in recent years. But which side are the institutions, with industrial lobbies or with public interest? ". Giuseppe Hungarian , Head of the Association does not show much confidence on the outcome of criminal proceedings: neither Vicenza for Miteni already started nor this of Alexandria who, for the usual insiders, is struggling to start in front of the gup. Perhaps it will not participate, perhaps it will opt for judicial actions in civil. In fact in the The United States has been a long judicial battle of civil cases that gave birth to impressive compensation and induced companies to cease productions.
For echo disasters, the institutions under accusation are the local ones, municipalities and regions, while governments have remained prey to industrial lobbies; Like this The bill of Senator Crucioli, for the ban on the Pfas in Italy lies buried in Parliament